Vacation (Ferien)

European cinema has never had a shortage of films about 30-something folk suffering marriage crisis as a result of infidelity; nor has the continent suffered much of a dearth of character-based dramas in which family-members congregate in rural locales, there to explore their feelings about each other and shed light on long-dormant enmities and passions. So it's testament to writer-director Arslan that Vacation, which stands at the intersection of these two well-worn, Bergman-ish sub-genres, should feel so fresh and absorbing.